Erasmus (Desiderius) Precatio Dominica in septem portiones distributa, first illustrated edition, …
Erasmus (Desiderius) Precatio Dominica in septem portiones distributa, first illustrated edition, collation: a-b8 c4, woodcut device on title and on verso of otherwise blank final leaf, 8 woodcut illustrations, initials, partially coloured in yellow in an early hand, a couple of leaves with side-notes trimmed with slight loss, light foxing, modern marbled boards, 8vo (147 x 96mm.), Basel, Johannes Froben, 1524. ⁂ Scarce first illustrated edition of Erasmus' commentary on the Lord's Prayer, originally published a year earlier without illustrations. The 8 large woodcuts are after Hans Holbein the Younger. This short treatise follows the medieval manner of biblical exposition known as postillating. Literature: Bezzel 1622; VD16 E 3450; Erasmus online 3205.
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